Good Luck: Garrigus Intends To Try A First Tee Joke On Vijay

Stephanie Wei quotes the likes of Matt Every, Jason Day, Justin Rose, David Lynn and Robert Garrigus on Vijay's situation and lawsuit and they aren't overly supportive of Singh.

Including first and second round Singh playing partner Garrigus kind of supported Singh by saying that the PGA Tour has"created a situation where one guy gets busted for recreational drugs and then one guy doesn’t get busted  for performance-enhancing drugs, which is messed up."

That probably won't make Vijay laugh--what does--but Garrigus is still going to try to deliver some humor to Thursday's 2 pm ET proceedings.

He’s focused on trying to win a golf tournament, but Garrigus, who is friendly and gregarious, said he’ll probably make a joke out of it with Singh on the first tee on Thursday to keep things light.

“I have a feeling there’s going to be a lot of security guards with our group (the next two days),” he said.

Getting In The Mood: Joe Daley Makes Players Debut At 52

Super story from last week by Doug Ferguson on Players Championship rookie Joe Daley.

As winner of the Senior TPC, Daley earned a spot in this week's Players.

Daley only had two full years on the PGA Tour. He spent 10 full years in the minors, long enough to play under three umbrella sponsors - Nike Tour, Buy.com Tour and Nationwide Tour. When he turned 50, he had to Monday qualify for Champions Tour events. He finally got his big break with a 66-64 weekend in the Senior PGA Championship to tie for fourth, which make him eligible for the Senior Players.
And here he is.

"It's a lot of years of hard work, man," he said. "It's pretty cool."

To put some of that into perspective, the winner of The Players Championship gets $1.71 million. That's nearly as much as Daley's earnings ($1.96 million) in two decades playing the PGA Tour, the Champions Tour and what is now called the Web.com Tour.

Videos: TPC Trying To Get Out From Under Downpours

Garry Smits calls them a "strange few days" and the videos would seem to confirm freakish weather in advance of The Players where a cool spring had already been causing trouble.

Video of the 18th fairway:



Meanwhile, if the grass growing thing doesn't work out for TPC Sawgrass Agronomy team member Lucas Andrews, he's got the accent and desire to let his hair get messy in high winds to be a CNN hurricane correspondent, as evidenced by the latest post on the TPC Sawgrass Agronomy blog.

Update on 2013-05-05 05:52 by Geoff

**They're up to 9 inches through Saturday afternoon. Garry Smits with an update from superintendent Tom Vlach, including help from the Jacksonville Electric Authority who offered pumps.

Vlach said more than 9 inches had fallen on the course as of 2 p.m. Saturday. However, there had been enough breaks in the rain squalls for his staff to begin verti-cutting the greens. The greens were cut and rolled four times Saturday morning with plans to do it again four times in the afternoon.

The Precision Air pumps under the greens also were working non-stop to drain even more moisture from the putting surfaces.

TPC Sawgrass' 17th Is Barely An Island Green Today

Tony Agolini Tweeted this post-tropical storm Debby image of the 17th at TPC Sawgrass, date and time unknown.

The TPC Sawgrass maintenance blog has video of the scene Monday after over six inches of rain. Good luck to superintendent Tom Vlach and team with the damage assessment and cleanup.

Update on 2012-06-27 01:36 by Geoff

**Garry Smits Times-Union blog features more photos labeled as Tuesday night shots and the flooding looks even worse.

Reminder: Players TV Times, Live @ 17

NBC/Golf Channel goes all out for this one and with the previously mentioned innovative efforts (plus one other surprise I learned of yesterday) and the limited commercial interruption, these are always some of the season's best telecasts.

The ET schedule for broadcasts and the online coverage accessible at PGATour.com:

Thursday, May 10, 1-7 p.m. - Golf Channel
Friday, May 11, 1-7 p.m. - Golf Channel
Saturday, May 12, 12-2 p.m. - Golf Channel 

2-7 p.m. - NBC
Sunday, May 13, 12-2 p.m. - Golf Channel 

2-7 p.m. - NBC

LIVE VIDEO SCHEDULE
    •    Thur-Fri 9:00a - 7:00 p
    •    Sat-Sun 12:00p - 7:00 p

Getting In The Mood For The Players...Agronomy Blog Edition

Whether you are interested in turfgrass management or not, you must check out the great content being posted at the TPC Sawgrass's outstanding agronomy blog. There is no shortage of videos and insights into what Tom Vlach and team are doing to make the TPC play so well.

I believe they will also be Tweeting pretty heavily during the week at the TPC Agronomy account, as evidenced by Tuesday's activity.

A sampling...